Word: showboats
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Grizzled gentry remembered the yellow posters outside a dozen Orpheum Theatres.) "Stirring scenes," it read on, "from early history are here presented for the first time in any book. See the majestic funeral of Emerson, the pitiful arrest of Coxey's army-" (Ah, yes, just so read a showboat's handbills when they played Uncle Tom down the Mississippi Valley)-"and The- odore Roosevelt (in person) putting-aside questions of state to decide more intimately those of the wardrobe. . . . Thomas Beer conclusive- ly proves that social discrimination against the Irish forced them into political control of New York...